wielki
Old Polish
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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velikъ. First attested in the 15th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wielki (comparative więcszy, derived adverb wielko)
- great, large (big in size)
- Antonym: mały
- great, large (big in quantity, amount, etc.)
- Antonym: mały
- great, large (big, having a big impact (of emotions etc.))
- great (of large importance)
- Antonym: mały
- (of people) great (remarkable, standing out)
- Antonym: mały
- long (lasting a long time)
Derived terms
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adverbs
verbs
- wieliczyć pf, wieliczać impf
- wielkoczynić impf
Related terms
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pronoun
Descendants
[edit]- Polish: wielki, wieliki (Middle Polish), wielgi (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, Near Masovian, Przemyśl)
- Silesian: wielki
References
[edit]- Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wielki”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wielki, wieliki”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
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Inherited from Old Polish wielki.
Pronunciation
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[edit]wielki (comparative większy, superlative największy, derived adverb wielce)
- great, large (big in size)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży
- Antonyms: mały, niewielki
- (typography) capital
- great, large (having a high intensity, scale, etc.)
- great (remarkable, standing out)
- great (of large importance)
- (of a position) high, grand (exalted in rank, station)
Declension
[edit]Declension of wielki (velar)
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
| nominative/ |
wielki | wielka | wielkie | wielcy | wielkie | |
| genitive | wielkiego | wielkiej | wielkiego | wielkich | ||
| dative | wielkiemu | wielkiej | wielkiemu | wielkim | ||
| accusative | wielkiego | wielki | wielką | wielkie | wielkich | wielkie |
| instrumental | wielkim | wielką | wielkim | wielkimi | ||
| locative | wielkim | wielkiej | wielkim | wielkich | ||
Derived terms
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Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wielki is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 123 times in scientific texts, 93 times in news, 102 times in essays, 97 times in fiction, and 50 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 465 times, making it the 97th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- wielki in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wielki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wielki”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “WIELKI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.04.2022
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wielki”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wielki”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wielki”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 568
- wielki in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
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Inherited from Old Polish wielki.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wielki
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | ||||
| animate | inanimate | |||||||
| nominative | wielki | wielkie | wielkŏ | wielcy | wielkie | |||
| genitive | wielkigo | wielkij | wielkich | |||||
| dative | wielkimu | wielkij | wielkim | |||||
| accusative | wielkigo | wielki | wielkie | wielkõ | wielkich | wielkie | ||
| instrumental | wielkim | wielkōm | wielkimi | |||||
| locative | wielkim | wielkij | wielkich | |||||
| vocative | wielki | wielkie | wielkŏ | wielcy | wielkie | |||
Further reading
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- Old Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁-
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Old Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Old Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Polish lemmas
- Old Polish adjectives
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁-
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛlki
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛlki/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish adjectives
- pl:Typography
- Polish velar adjectives
- Polish suppletive adjectives
- pl:Size
- Silesian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Silesian terms inherited from Old Polish
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Silesian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁-
- Silesian terms derived from Old Polish
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Silesian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Silesian/ɛlki
- Rhymes:Silesian/ɛlki/2 syllables
- Silesian lemmas
- Silesian adjectives